1997Northern Ireland.Northern Ireland97803945744000394574400Children359614581997A boy's coming of age in 1950s Northern Ireland amid the fear of the present and the ghosts of the past. It turns out his paternal uncle did not just die, but was executed as an informer. Not only that, the man who ordered the execution was his maternal grandfather. There's more, the uncle was actually innocent, set up by another member of the family. A first novel.35961458Reading in the darken1st American ed.FictionBildungsromansKnopfEnglish fiction--20th centuryChildren--Northern IrelandChildrenNew YorknyuBetrayalViolence--Psychological aspects2018-03-12Violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th centuryFamilies--Northern IrelandEnglish fiction--Irish authorsDeaneSeamusSeamus Deane1940